Senior Software Engineer II — Real-Time Data & AI Streaming

Cisco Systems, Inc; City Of London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco ThousandEyes in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, test, and operate near real-time data streaming solutions for large networking customers.

You will develop agentic workflows, integrate AI tools with CI/CD and dev environments, and create secure, observable backend services and APIs that scale.

Join a team that evolves architecture, improves engineering practices, and drives AI-enabled insights across Cisco's networking portfolio.

Qualifications

• Production experience with Java in real-time data processing environments.
• Experience building streaming pipelines with Kafka/Flink or similar.
• Experience designing APIs within distributed systems.
• Knowledge of Git, containerization, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and operate real-time streaming data solutions.
• Develop agentic workflows, reusable skills, tool integrations, and orchestration capabilities.
• Integrate AI tools with source control, CI/CD systems, issue trackers, documentation platforms, and internal developer environments.
• Build backend services, MCP and APIs that are secure, observable, reliable, and easy to maintain.
• Apply large scale data processing to real time streaming telemetry across various domains.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and help evolve the architecture of our AI development platform.
• Improve engineering processes, documentation, and operational practices across the team.

Skills

Java

APIs design

Streaming data processing

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Tools

Apache Kafka

Apache Flink

ClickHouse

Git

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Cisco ThousandEyes in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, test, and operate near real-time data streaming solutions for large networking customers.

You will develop agentic workflows, integrate AI tools with CI/CD and dev environments, and create secure, observable backend services and APIs that scale.

Join a team that evolves architecture, improves engineering practices, and drives AI-enabled insights across Cisco's networking portfolio.